AT&T has been said to be the largest telecommunications company in the world while it is the second largest in terms of mobile telephone services. Among the many services it offers are phone plans, Internet, and TV service.

Thanks to the strength of its network, the AT&T phone and wireless internet plans have become well known among people looking for internet solutions independently or they want to include other things such as talk and text.

AT&T internet service comes with various things such as Wi-Fi gateway which doesn’t add any cost to you, AT&T Smart Home Manager which is an app to manage your Wi-Fi network from either your computer or smartphone, AT&T Internet Security Suite powered by McAfee, Email Accounts, and Wi-Fi Hotspots.

AT&T Phone And Wireless Internet Plans

AT&T has different phone and wireless internet plans and packages that are popular for the speed that delivers. Basically, you can divide AT$T’s plans into three: prepaid data plans, unlimited data plans, shared data plan.

Wireless Unlimited plans

The prices of the packages here are determined by the number of lines that you are using, from 1 line to 4.

– AT&T Unlimited & More Premium: If you are using a single line, you will pay $80 per month, $75 per month when you are using 2 lines, $57 monthly for each line if you are using 3, and $48 each month for each line if you are using 4 lines.

What you get here include mobile hotspot, over 30 live and on-demand Tv channels, and Unlimited talk, text, & data including to Mexico and Canada among other things.

– AT&T Unlimited & More: The prices for this plan are also decided by the number of lines you are using. With a line, you will be paying $70 per month while with 2 lines you will pay $63 per line, and $49 per line if you are making use of 3. If you are using 4 lines, you will pay $40 for each line.

Other things the plan offers are unlimited talk, text & data including to Mexico and Canada, and 30 live and on-demand TV channels.

Shared Data Plans

Just like the unlimited plans, the prices here are also determined by the number of lines you are using.

– Mobile share plus (9GB): With this plan, what you get to pay with this plan if you are using a line is $60 while you will pay $50 per line if you are using two lines. With 3 lines, you will pay $40 per month for each line, and you pay $35 for each line if you are using 4 lines.

The plan comes with 9GB of 4G LTE shared data, mobile hotspot, and unlimited call and text including to Mexico while you also get unlimited texts to over 120 countries. More so, you can rollover data to the next month.

– Mobile share plus (3GB): For a line, this plan costs $50 and for two, you will pay $40 for each line. If you select 3 lines, you will pay $33 per line and for 4, you will pay $30 per month.

The plan comes with 3GB of 4G LTE shared data, mobile hotspot, and there is talk, text, and data that is included including for Mexico. More so, there are unlimited texts from the US to more than 120 countries. With the data, you will also be able to roll over to the next month anything that is left unfinished.

Prepaid Plans

There are also prepaid plans that you can use which give you unlimited talk and text in the U.S, text from the U.S. to more than a hundred countries, and AutoPay and Multi-Line discount eligibility.

– 1 Gb data: This costs $35 a month or $30 if you have the AutoPay discount. Some of the things it comes with are the mobile hotspot, rollover of unused data to the next month, and you can stream HD video of up to 1080p.

– 8 GB Data: This costs $50 or $40 per month with the AutoPay discount. The data you get here can be rolled over to the next month while it comes with mobile hotspot and offers HD streaming of up to 1080p. There is also unlimited talk and text to Mexico and Canada.

– Unlimited Data: This offers $45 per month with AutoPay discount and $65 without. You get unlimited text and call to Mexico and Canada.

– Unlimited Data: This plan comes with $65 with AutoPay and $85 per month without discount. The benefits include 10GB hotspot, HD video streaming (up to 1080p), and unlimited text and call to Mexico and Canada.

AT&T Internet Plans

These are some other internet packages that you can also use for phone:

Internet Basic 5: This package comes at $30 per month offering a download speed of up to 5 Mbps.

Internet: At $40 per month, this plan has a download speed of up to 100 Mbps. However, this is not available in all areas.

Internet 300: With a download speed of 300 Mbps, this plan costs $60 per month.

Internet 1000: At $80 per month, this plan delivers a speed of up to 1000 Mbps.

APN Settings

To use the AT&T services, you have the options of either bringing your phone or buying one from the network. If you want to buy a phone, there are a number available including iPhone, ZTE phones, Samsung, and other brands. If you are bringing your mobile phone, it is important to know that it will have to be unlocked before you can use it for AT&T.

For an AT&T phone, every setting should come automatically. However, if you do not get the setting probably because you come with your phone, you will need the APN which is needed for Internet and MMS. To make the APN settings manually on your Android devices, here are the data settings for your Android smartphone, Android Tablets, and iPhone:

Android smartphone AT&T APN Settings

Name: NXTGENPHONE

APN: NXTGENPHONE

Proxy: Not set

Port: Not set

Username: Not set

Password: Not set

Server: Not set

MMSC: http://mmsc.mobile.att.net

MMS Proxy: proxy.mobile.att.net

MMS port: 80

MCC: 310

MNC: 410

Authentication type: None

APN type: default,mms,supl

APN protocol: IPv4

APN roaming protocol: IPv4

Bearer: Unspecified

Android Tablet AT&T APN Settings

Name: ATT BROADBAND

APN: BROADBAND

Proxy: Not set

Port: Not set

Username: Not set

Password: Not set

Server: Not set

MMSC: Not set

MMS Proxy: Not set

MMS port: 80

MCC: 310

MNC: 410

Authentication type: None

APN type: default,mms,supl

APN protocol: Enabled

Bearer: Unspecified

iPhone AT&T APN Settings

Name: NXTGENPHONE

APN: NXTGENPHONE

Proxy: Not set

Port: Not set

Username: Not set

Password: Not set

Server: Not set

MMSC: http://mmsc.mobile.att.net

MMS: proxy proxy.mobile.att.net

MMS: port 80

MCC: 310

MNC: 410

Authentication Type: None

APN type: default, mms, supl, hipri

APN protocol: IPv4

Bearer: Unspecified

Customer Service

AT&T has a good customer service whether you want to make an inquiry or you have a problem you need to be solved. Here are ways to contact the customer service: